The top 5 actions parents can take to reduce child exposure to toxic chemicals at home

Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment, Toronto

15-Jun-2011

If parents do just 5 things to safeguard their kids’ health: Dust, use green cleaning products, do renos carefully, avoid certain plastics, serve low-mercury fish

Leading Canadian health and environmental experts today issued a list of the top five ways parents can protect their children from toxic substances in and around the home.

Controlling house dust; switching to less-toxic, fragrance-free cleaners; taking extreme care with renovation projects; avoiding certain types and uses of plastics; and choosing fish that are low in mercury are the five priority actions recommended by the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment (CPCHE) to reduce common sources of toxic exposure associated with child health risks.

“If parents take simple actions in these five areas, they can significantly reduce their children’s exposures to toxics – and even save money,” says Erica Phipps, CPCHE Partnership Director.

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